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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

@torkildl.bsky.social

Master procrastinator. UiO wage slave as sociology professor.

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It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.

That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

08.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 3001    🔁 1839    💬 211    📌 139

Even with Russia helping Iran target Americans, the Trump administration approach to Ukraine is Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and the goal of U.S. pressure is to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin.

08.03.2026 14:03 — 👍 205    🔁 63    💬 20    📌 5

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 7676    🔁 2413    💬 234    📌 62

“Dr NaN”

07.03.2026 17:15 — 👍 50    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 1
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The world’s most unreliable encyclopaedia: Elon Musk’s AI Wikipedia alternative is distorting the truth about Northern Ireland, defaming, and perversely altering history From Bloody Sunday to RHI, Gerry Adams, Bobby Sands, and Michael Stone, Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is spreading dangerous lies about Northern Ireland

The world’s most unreliable encyclopaedia: Elon Musk’s AI Wikipedia alternative is dangerously distorting the truth about Northern Ireland, defaming & perversely altering history. It smears Troubles victims, lauds a paramilitary force & libels politicians.

07.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 224    🔁 105    💬 2    📌 9
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A good reminder of what pathetic cowards we have been when it comes to Ukraine.

Europe didn’t place large orders of SAMP/T batteries and Aster interceptors, so it should at least have ordered many PAC interceptors for Ukraine.

Traitors

07.03.2026 08:00 — 👍 216    🔁 68    💬 6    📌 0
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Hello!

Hello?

Anyone there?

Is this thing on?

06.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 69    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 0

Let's just come out and say it -- this is worst U.S. war crime since the Vietnam War.

06.03.2026 13:01 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Yet another example why helping Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression is critical to US national security.

Ukraine could have, and wanted to, destroy Russia's Shahed drone factory but Trump refused to allow them. Now Putin is shipping those drones to Iran.

04.03.2026 20:51 — 👍 120    🔁 66    💬 9    📌 3
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

03.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 2405    🔁 867    💬 3    📌 151

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

03.03.2026 03:09 — 👍 581    🔁 262    💬 39    📌 43

Interesting!

Let us see what i can do on my xps - 64GB mem, nvidia 4050. Eventually it will run on A100s probably.

02.03.2026 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe @michelnivard.bsky.social can share some more details? :) Running through ollama server?

02.03.2026 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, very nice! Will try to move on with smth like this.

02.03.2026 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We wanted to save Iranians from the bad guys.

So we killed the bad guys.

This turned out to be unfortunate, because our plan was, after saving the Iranians from the bad guys, to pick one of the bad guys to be *our* bad guy and to leave him in charge.

02.03.2026 13:35 — 👍 1399    🔁 396    💬 90    📌 22

Only with colleagues. People are experimenting with generating mock data, and moving code in/out, but it is a hassle. As you say, they would be good to have anyway for teaching etc.

02.03.2026 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Translated: "We are OK with war crimes."

02.03.2026 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Matt gave the same talk here two days before :)

Yes, open-weight LLMs we can have, and in combination with an agent (maybe openclaw-type) it will work reasonably well. We will experiment now, here at UiO.

02.03.2026 13:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI agents will increase the number of academic papers, also high-quality papers. But, before the agents are _inside_ the secure servers, closed data sources like register data, will become even more attractive.

02.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I am prone to *configuratis*, a disease where you spend the majority of your working time improving workflow and configuration files instead of doing the actual work.

Agents make this even worse. Now I can configure the agent to more efficiently configure pandoc/LaTeX/Beamer/Makefile etc.

02.03.2026 12:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is more evidence that Roger Boyes won’t be round by spring not least the amount he must be drinking to assume things are going well for the army that is currently tricking Africans to join because they’re running low on cannon fodder

02.03.2026 09:44 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

01.03.2026 11:40 — 👍 951    🔁 320    💬 16    📌 5

Using agents to do research is making me feel like I do not have to do research in order to do research, but I guess I eventually have to do research anyway.

01.03.2026 11:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

January: Kidnap the president of Venezuela

February: Launch an unprovoked war with Iran

March: ???

28.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 1304    🔁 226    💬 62    📌 21
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THIS.

28.02.2026 12:21 — 👍 27765    🔁 11361    💬 1003    📌 604
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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This is amazing.

28.02.2026 05:48 — 👍 321    🔁 130    💬 7    📌 15
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Stephen Miller and everyone else in the Trump administration lied

28.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 194    🔁 68    💬 10    📌 5

Sorry but the craziest and worst regime in the world is North Korea and they have nuclear weapons and Donald Trump wrote what he described as love letters to its dictator.

27.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 3230    🔁 680    💬 296    📌 138
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Hey - there's a preprint about the bioRxiv preprint server published as a preprint on the bioRxiv preprint server:

bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

27.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 1

Maybe try to set something up with OpenClaw and some dedicated GPUs on the inside...?

26.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0